A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

“Trying” is the biggest mistake you can make early on in a relationship. It sets a false expectation that you will eventually tire of.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging.

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

No worldly success can compensate for failure in the home.

No matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal — there really is only one, and that is this: To fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.

Every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more of who you are.

When you’re down in the hole, when that moment comes, it’s really okay to feel bad for a little while — give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost — but, then, here’s the key: Learn from every mistake.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure — all your life. It’s as simple as that. J